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The sassy best friend, the mother, the bad girl, the weird spinster, the girlfriend etc. Inspired by the passing of Celeste Holm. So many great performances here, but also some (justifiably?) forgotten actresses. Even the dullest studio picture from this era will have a couple of juicy supporting roles for old pros.
Poll Results
| Option | Votes |
| Agnes Moorehead The Magnificent Ambersons (Fanny Minafer) | 8 |
| Ruth Hussey The Philadelphia Story (Elizabeth Imbrie) | 3 |
| Judith Anderson Rebecca (Mrs. Danvers) | 2 |
| Claire Trevor Key Largo (Gaye Dawn) | 1 |
| Sara Allgood How Green Was My Valley (Beth Morgan) | 1 |
| Celeste Holm Come to the Stable (Sister Scholastica) | 1 |
| Elsa Lanchester Come to the Stable (Amelia Potts) | 0 |
| Celeste Holm Gentleman's Agreement (Anne Dettrey) | 0 |
| Gale Sondergaard Anna and the King of Siam (Lady Thiang) | 0 |
| Flora Robson Saratoga Trunk (Angelique Buiton) | 0 |
| Lillian Gish Duel in the Sun (Laura Belle McCanles) | 0 |
| Ethel Barrymore The Spiral Staircase (Mrs. Warren) | 0 |
| Anne Baxter The Razor's Edge (Sophie MacDonald) | 0 |
| Joan Lorring The Corn is Green (Bessie Watty) | 0 |
| Angela Lansbury The Picture of Dorian Gray (Sibyl Vane) | 0 |
| Ethel Barrymore The Paradine Case (Lady Sophie Horfield) | 0 |
| Gloria Grahame Crossfire (Ginny Tremaine) | 0 |
| Marjorie Main The Egg and I (Ma Kettle) | 0 |
| Ethel Barrymore Pinky (Miss Em) | 0 |
| Mercedes McCambridge All the King's Men (Sadie Burke) | 0 |
| Jean Simmons Hamlet (Ophelia) | 0 |
| Agnes Moorehead Johnny Belinda (Aggie McDonald) | 0 |
| Ellen Corby I Remember Mama (Aunt Trina) | 0 |
| Barbara Bel Geddes I Remember Mama (Katrin Hanson) | 0 |
| Ethel Waters Pinky (Dicey Johnson) | 0 |
| Anne Revere Gentleman's Agreement (Mrs. Green) | 0 |
| Ann Blyth Mildred Pierce (Veda Pierce Forrester) | 0 |
| Eve Arden Mildred Pierce (Ida Corwin) | 0 |
| Susan Peters Random Harvest (Kitty Chilcet) | 0 |
| Jane Darwell The Grapes of Wrath (Ma Joad) | 0 |
| Gladys Cooper Now, Voyager (Mrs. Vale) | 0 |
| Teresa Wright Mrs. Miniver (Carol Beldon) | 0 |
| Margaret Wycherly Sergeant York (Mother York) | 0 |
| Teresa Wright The Little Foxes (Alexandra Giddens) | 0 |
| Patricia Collinge The Little Foxes (Birdie Hubbard) | 0 |
| Mary Astor The Great Lie (Sandra Kovak) | 0 |
| Marjorie Rambeau Primrose Path (Mamie Adams) | 0 |
| May Whitty Mrs. Miniver (Lady Beldon) | 0 |
| Katina Paxinou For Whom the Bell Tolls (Pilar) | 0 |
| Gladys Cooper The Song of Bernadette (Sr Marie Therese Vauzous) | 0 |
| Anne Revere National Velvet (Araminty Brown) | 0 |
| Agnes Moorehead Mrs. Parkington (Baroness Aspasia Conti) | 0 |
| Aline MacMahon Dragon Seed (Ling Tan's Wife) | 0 |
| Angela Lansbury Gaslight (Nancy Oliver) | 0 |
| Jennifer Jones Since You Went Away (Jane Deborah Hilton) | 0 |
| Ethel Barrymore None but the Lonely Heart (Ma Mott) | 0 |
| Lucile Watson Watch on the Rhine (Fanny Farrelly) | 0 |
| Anne Revere The Song of Bernadette (Louise Soubirous) | 0 |
| Paulette Goddard So Proudly We Hail! (Lt. Joan O'Doul) | 0 |
| Barbara O'Neil All This and Heaven Too (Duchesse de Praslin) | 0 |
― buzza, Monday, 16 July 2012 01:54 (thirteen years ago)
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